Role Models Quotes
These are some of the best 'Role Models' quotations and sayings.
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A good example is the best sermon.
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Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.
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As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.
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Call the roll in your memory of conspicuously successful [business] giants and, if you know anything about their careers, you will be struck by the fact that almost every one of them encountered inordinate difficulties sufficient to crush all but the gamest of spirits. Edison went hungry many times before he became famous.
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Don't use the conduct of a fool as a precedent.
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Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice.
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Emulation is a noble and just passion, full of appreciation.
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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
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Example is the school of mankind; they will learn at no other.
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Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil.
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From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
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I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.
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Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
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It's true that heroes are inspiring, but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of their name? Would Wonder Woman matter if she only sent commiserating telegrams to the distressed?
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Judgment can be acquired only by acute observation, by actual experience in the school of life, by ceaseless alertness to learn from others, by study of the activities of men who have made notable marks, by striving to analyze the everyday play of causes and effects, by constant study of human nature.
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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
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Kill reverence and you've killed the hero in man.
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Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.
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